LOL in '75 I got pulled over at 3AM at 120 plus on Silverado Trail in a '69 Boss 302 with the owner riding shotgun, and the cop says hey it's drunk-thirty in the morning, bad time to drive fast, and really, I just wanted to look at the car. Have a good night and be careful.

Walt Cantrell got what has to be the slowest speeding ticket ever in a gennie 427 Cobra, got pulled over on Saturday afternoon right in front of Courtesy Ford in Napa for going 40 in a 35- and got the ticket, no warning. Car salesmen loved it, by the time Deputy Dawg was done, there were at least 50 people in the parking lot watching

I spend a lot of time doing repairs at the Port of Oakland, usually on Saturday when the cranes aren't running. Spent all winter down there after Loma Prieta in '89, first work was repairing one of the crane rails, the cranes run on two with a huge umbilical coil. In this yard, one of the rails was on the dock, which was constructed on pilings and didn't move, but the inboard rail was off the dock in the paved area, which sunk a foot during the quake. There were three new cranes already on the water from Korea, and they were looking at massive surcharges if unloading was held up- we made the deadline. And yeah, the cranes were sideways on the ship, they waited until the tide was right, and the cranes just walk off the ship on temp rails and power- quite a thing to watch.
You can tell when the crane operator gets a little rummy near end of shift, sometimes they will miss the pins on the yard dog trailer, pick the container up about 4 feet, and drop it down hard- poor bastage in the yard dog goes for a pretty good ride when it bottoms out

Lowest I've gotten with a 427 was a loose std bore (about .010 clearance!) with factory small dome TRW's, std $ steel crank about .003 and .0025, and a Milodon gear drive turning the cam, 7 lbs on a pretty accurate beam torque wrench- I could spin it with my little finger. More normal clearances would have no doubt brought it up a bit- but it did spin smooth and easy

Might want to check if it's a 330MD- IIRC the MD version used a regular car/pickup water pump and small crank snout, maybe the rear flange is also standard. I used to have an F600 dump with one, and swapped the trans, but never had the clutch/ bell out of it

Thanks Joe, no further comment necessary- you said it all 

Since were kinda off topic a little, I have a story that tops both. 20 plus years ago my buddies dad pulled the 289 out of their maverick. He unhooked everything, bent over and pulled it out. By hand. Then carried it up the driveway, and told my buddy to hurry up and open the door, it was getting heavy! He set it on the picnic table and they rebuilt it there. True story. He was 6' 6" and maybe 400 lbs and hard as old iron.

I pulled that one out with an excavator- first you hook the radiator support with the bucket teeth, and give yourself another foot of clearance, then while it's hooked on the bucket, raise it up and throw a couple log rounds underneath- comes right out 

I had a buddy like yours, looked just like Ben Davidson and at least as big, "Butch". He had a 70 340 Duster and a a hopped 750 Honda- I saw him pick up the Honda and put it in the Duster trunk one day. So that winter, he decides the Duster engine needs a R&B job, so he pulls the heads, unbolts the trans, and reaches in over the fender and grabs the 340 shortblock out of there- never even stopped talking. Nobody ever f#*ked with Butch much

I still have my 61 HotRod Yearbook that my dad bought, it has the old-style breakdowns of the engines laid out in pieces and extensive spec articles, 390/375 and 401, 409 Chebbie, and IIRC the 389 Poncho